When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.